DEMENTED!

SELENE LUNA IN NYC: THIS SATURDAY!

CAUGHT HER SHOW IN LA AND IT'S A SCREEEAAAAM! Do not miss this diminutive dynamite dazzler!

I'M MCLOVIN' IT!

INO FAN OF THE MANDATE--AM I A TEA PARTIER?

If the U.S. Supreme Court rejects the individual mandate for healthcare this summer (and even if it doesn't), we should be aware that this was never a real solution and that something better is available. We should make Congress and our state legislatures aware now.

Tell them single-payer healthcare is the way.

Most rich countries spend much less on healthcare and provide it for everyone without mandating the purchase of health insurance from private corporations. They use non-profit systems like single-payer that cut out the middleman, the bureaucracy, the advertising, and the profit motive.

Congress has the Constitutional right to pass laws "necessary and proper for carrying into execution" its powers, including providing for the "general welfare." Medicare and veterans' healthcare are single-payer systems that could easily be expanded to include everyone. It is arguably not "necessary and proper" to require people to buy an expensive, inadequate product from a private corporation.

If the individual mandate ends, let's not lose heart. Let's seize the opportunity. States are moving ahead with single-payer, but Obama's healthcare law included measures aimed at making it harder for states to act. Vermont has passed single-payer and is struggling with these hurdles now.

An amendment to fix this was passed in House committee during the 2009 healthcare debate but then unceremoniously stripped out by Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Tell Congress to allow states to create single-payer now.

SIGN: ROOTSACTION

HOT MESS TONIGHT AT XL 9PM!

Promoter Brandon Voss, Raven Symone and Tyra Sanchez at last week's extravaganza!





Check out what Michael Musto calls "the best drag show in NYC"!

DEEPLY DISTURBING

It is so upsetting to see someone holding a sign that says BLACK LIFE MATTERS. Should anyone have to state that in 2012? Apparently so. The Trayvon Martin case isn't just about one man's prejudice, but a particularly corrupt local police force and a biased system nationwide. Zimmerman killed a kid and then was home for dinner? They gave the dead boy a drug test but not Zimmerman--whose past mental issues the local police were clearly aware of? Now the police dpt is leaking info to damn Trayvon--that he was on suspension from school for trace amounts of marijuana. So now the prejudiced part of white America can say "Oh, ok. The kid was no good and on drugs. So Zimmerman was probably right." And Zimmerman's lawyer is claiming that Trayvon punched Zimmerman. What would his motive have been? In the recording of the police dispatch, Zimmerman said either these goons or these coons always get away. Some nut on TV was saying yesterday that coons is not a racial slur used by people under 40--which is true--so Zimmerman was probably saying goons, which is a term of endearment in high schools. As Cenk Ugyar pointed out last night on Current TV, why on earth would Zimmerman use a term of endearment for someone who he then shot? Makes no sense, but the smear campaign is in full swing now. And of course, GOP candidates are trying to stir up their racist base with Obama's statement on this.

FROM MOVEON.ORG:

I'm a MoveOn member and a mother, and my two sons look like Trayvon Martin.

As parents, we all have to warn our children about the dangers of the world—strangers, bullies, which streets not to walk down. But there's a special pain in explaining to my sons the suspicion and dangers they face, simply by being young black men.

One month ago today, Trayvon Martin was walking through a gated community in Florida with nothing more than an iced tea and a bag of skittles. But being a young black man in a hoodie made him "suspicious" to George Zimmerman, who got out of his SUV, tracked Trayvon down, and shot him dead.1

On that terrible day, my special pain and fear as a parent became very urgent ... and very real. Racial profiling is a sickness in the soul of our nation. It limits our promise. It divides us. And one month ago, it robbed Trayvon Martin of his life.
Trayvon's story is already inspiring millions in the call for justice and an end to racial violence. It also moved writer/activist Kevin Powell, Akila Worksongs, Jasiri X and the folks at MoveOn and ColorOfChange to record a new powerful video "A Song for Trayvon." Please watch it and share it with your family and friends to inspire more people to join this growing movement:

http://moveon.org/SongForTrayvon?id=38007-1644652-fu9mpgx&t=2

When my husband shared the news about Trayvon, my eyes welled with tears. I pictured my own two boys innocently walking home, just like Trayvon, and then never seeing them again—never hugging them. It was more than I could bear.

That's why I started a SignOn petition calling for justice for Trayvon. It's been signed by more than 500,000 MoveOn members, and I'm delivering it to the Justice Department today. Already, the public pressure from us and our allies is making a difference.

The Justice Department, the State of Florida, and the FBI have launched new investigations, a new state prosecutor has been appointed, and a grand jury date has been set.2 But we need to keep building the call for justice. And we do that by making sure each and every American knows Trayvon's story.

Click here to watch and share a powerful video about the injustice done to Trayvon Martin.

President Obama said, "if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon."3 He might be like Trayvon too, and Trayvon might have been like my two boys; or your son; or friends of your children, joining you at the dinner table.

But Zimmerman couldn't see past Trayvon's race and hoodie to the promising young man he was—a football player, a horseback rider, a hero who pulled his father from a burning kitchen.4 Trayvon was young, he was alive, he was beautiful.

All of us sharing Trayvon's story and calling out for justice are fighting back against racism and senseless violence, so one day we no longer have to fear our child's walk home in the darkness.

It's up to us to make sure that every person in America knows what happened to Trayvon and how his death moved us to tears and action. Help us grow this movement by sharing this video with everyone you know.

Click here to watch and share Trayvon Martin's story.

HEE HEE!

MARGOH AND FLO!

Legendary Drag diva Flotilla Debarge joins show as MargOH!'s Special guest!!! So come on down!!

MargOH! Channing is Tipsy at Dixon Place March 30 9:30PM

Dixon Place Presents MargOH! Channing is Tipsy -3/30/2012
MargOH! Channing is going off…off off Broadway that is by bringing her highly
acclaimed drunkglama show aptly titled “MargOH! Channing is Tipsy” To Dixon Place ,
161A Chrystie Street, March 30 ,9:30PM.

“MargOH! Channing is Tipsy” is written and performed by drag superstar
MargOH! Channing (BT Shea). The show deconstructs drag through
storytelling, song, and drunkglama dysfunction.MargOH! reminisces about
her family, gay lovers and the ups and downs of her careerwhile
tackling such subjects as rape, incest, race, political correctness,
sexual orientation, the power of Liza and most of all survival. Tipsy
features MargOH!’s long time Gayiance’ MAN-ee Champagne (Jeff
Catlow-Shea), Diamond Daquiri (Crystal Rona Peterson) as back up diva’s
The MargOH!-tini’s and the Jarad Astin Trio. The show is directed by
Thom Fogarty

MargOH!’s hilarious stage shows and bombastic vocal stylings have
become something of an event on the downtown scene and are always
must-sees for her ardent fans which have included several performances
by her dear friend Nellie McKay. After speaking by phone with Ms.
Channing she says herself; "I’m so thrilled to be debuting Tipsy at
Dixon Place in March and thankful to my fans for drinking right along
with me…the more they drink the more I do…My shows are a win, win for
everyone! I’ve been overwhelmed by the love, support and kind words
for Tipsy by friends and fans”. Burlesque star World Famous *BoB*
called the show “Gay-mazing” , Photographer, writer and nightlife
queen Gerry Visco said “MargOH! really knows how to give it her all”,
Mike Diamond of Logo said “MargOH! is one hell of a broad and true
star”, Next Magazine said “MargOH! is one part voice, three parts
panache and fours parts boozy which made for an hysterical evening” and
Kevin Novinski of Gay Socialites said “Gawd, this girl can sing”. Come
see what all the buzz is about!

MargOH! Channing (BT Shea) is a writer, comedian and performance artist
from Providence, Rhode Island .MargOH! now based in New York created a
highly successful variety show The MargOH! Channing Show for MNN from
2003-2006 and included guests Michael Musto, Penny Arcade and Nellie
McKay. MargOH! made her cabaret debut in 2007 with The MargOH! Channing
Variety Hour at The D-Lounge at the Darryl Roth Theater. In 2011
MargOH! premiered her new work MargOH! Channing is Tipsy to rave
reviews and made her London debut at the Phoenix Artists Club. Ms.
Channing recently became a contributing writer for the nightlife zine
Fierth.com and had her short story Prohibition Inhibition featured in
theCoelacanth Journal.

“MargOH! Channing is Tipsy” takes place on March 30 Showtime 9:30PM
at Dixon Place,161A Chrystie Street Btwn Rivington & Delancey. $12 in
advance, $15 at the door, $10 students / seniors. For Tickets
https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pe/9589095
*The Dixon Place Lounge is open, before, during and after the show.
Proceeds directly support Dixon Place’s artists and mission
Links:

THIS WOMAN CAN VOTE!

I mean, I knew a spanish guy named Jesus who was kinda cheesy, but c'mon!

TWERKING FOR JESUS!

I don't think go deserves this tribute!

WATCH: TUMBLR

SOMEONE......

Can't tell your mouth from your rectum--and they sell drugs! WOOHOO!

BY DIAHANN CAROL!

"I remember quite clearly the sight of a bright yellow Bentley convertible coming at me on Coldwater Canyon Drive in Beverly Hills.I had never seen such a color in my life except on a taxi cab in New York.Behind the wheel of this lurid yellow car was this tiny black woman with a huge head of hair flying in the wind. As she drove past me,I recognized it was Diana Ross.

"There goes the neighborhood,'I muttered to myself"

SADE PENDARVIS: THE QUEEN OF GAY SOUL

FROM NEXT MAGAZINE:

Sade Pendavis, who first found her first fame in the 1990 documentary Paris Is Burning, turning out Patti Labelle's iconic "Over The Rainbow," passed away March 14 from complications of a previous liver transplant. For years The Queen of Gay Soul warmed hearts singing with Joey Arias, Raven O and Sherry Vine at Bar d'O as well as celebrated appearances at Wigstock, in Europe with Susanne Bartsch in the early '90s and more recently with Joey Arias at Town Hall. Although her deteriorating health in the final years made performing difficult, she continued to dazzle audiences until very recently. We asked her friends to reflect on her talent and her legacy.

MORE: NEXTMAGAZINE

TELL IT LIKE IT IS!

HOTTEST DRAG I'VE SEEN!

Intrepid firefighters tackle roaring blaze in drag

IT'S NOT AS DIRTY AS YOU THINK!

AWFUL!

OBAMA'S CHANGE: A SEX CHANGE NANNY?

OBAMA'S FORMER CARETAKER FROM INDONESIA

MORE: YAHOO.COM

CANDIS CAYNE PERFROMS TONIGHT AT XL!

TIME FOR AN OIL CHANGE!

You deserve the truth. And the truth is that President Obama has deeply disappointed us.

Yesterday, President Obama said, “You have my word that we will keep drilling everywhere we can”. Today, the President stood in a TransCanada pipeline yard and issued a new Executive Order “expediting” the permit process for the Southern half of the Keystone XL pipeline.

No, that wasn’t Sarah Palin. That was Barack Obama embracing the Drill Baby Drill rhetoric, and betraying all of us who have fought so hard to stop the Keystone XL pipeline.

Tell Obama: No More Favors for the Oil Industry!

It looks like the more than $1.2 million that the oil industry has given to President Obama over his career has paid off.

The President talks a good game on ending subsidies to the oil industry. But essentially, his Executive Order is a new subsidy. By “expediting” the permit process for this tar sands export pipeline, the President is saving the oil industry millions of dollars, and potentially circumventing important laws designed to protect the health and environment of all Americans.

And for what? Building this pipeline will not lower gas prices. It will not put many Americans to work. It will not enhance America’s energy security.


Building the pipeline will supply Gulf Coast refiners including the Saudi-owned Motiva with oil for export. It will line the pockets of the oil industry with even more profits. And it will continue our nation’s dangerous dependence on oil.

The President acknowledged in his speech that the oil market is global, and that the situation in Iran – not anything to do with pipelines or domestic drilling – is what is causing prices to rise. He needs to follow through on that logic.

The problem isn’t rising gas prices. The problem is that we Americans use too much gas. The only way we will insulate ourselves from swings in the global oil market – not to mention reducing our emissions to slow climate change – is to use less. The President’s actions today take us in exactly the wrong direction.

This fight isn’t over. In fact, I promise you, it’s just beginning.

As a first step, please join me in contacting the White House today and expressing our deep disappointment in the President’s actions, along with our determination to stop him from “drilling everywhere”.

Thanks for your ongoing commitment to separate oil and state. Together, we can ensure that eventually, our politicians will listen to the people, not Big Oil.

SIGN: PRICEOFOIL.COM

YES!

MAKING HOUSEWORK MORE GLAMOROUS!

WE ARE SICK OF WAR AND DON'T WANT ANOTHER ONE WITH IRAN!

PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE IF YOU AGREE!

CREDOACTION:

As we approach the ninth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, we once again see dangerous momentum for another irresponsible, unnecessary and costly war — this time with Iran.

Fear-mongering and propaganda aside, Iran is not an imminent threat to the United States — and we haven't yet exhausted all avenues for diplomacy to ensure Iran does not acquire a nuclear weapon.

But as a result of the Iranian Revolution over 30 years ago, current law makes it very difficult for American diplomats to talk directly to representatives of the Iranian government.

That is why Congresswoman Barbara Lee has introduced legislation that, in her words, "directs the President to appoint a Special Envoy for Iran to ensure that all diplomatic avenues are pursued to avoid a war with Iran and to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon."1

Click here to automatically sign the petition. Tell your member of Congress to co-sponsor Rep. Lee's bill to avoid an unnecessary and costly war with Iran.

Whether or not you think your representative will co-sponsor the bill, we need you to speak out.

Unfortunately, while the American people are opposed to another war of choice,2 those pushing for war have been far more vocal and organized than the rest of us.

Our friends on the Hill have told us that congressional offices are hearing from people who want us to go to war, but not from those who would like to see a diplomatic solution.

Not only will your petition signature signal support for Rep. Lee's bill, it will also ensure that those howling for war are not met with a deafening silence on our side.

Our allies in Congress will know their constituents want them to remain steadfast, and other lawmakers will be put on notice that their constituents reject the dangerous saber-rattling that might bring our nation to the brink of war.

We can't afford to remain a silent majority. We must push back on the ever-increasing clamor for war.

SIGN: CREDOACTION

GIVE THIS A MOMENT TO GET GOING!

EVERY WEDNESDAY AT XL!

Michael Musto came last week and called it "the best drag show in town"! This week, Tyra Sanchez is our special guest! Wednesdays at 9PM at XL. $10 + 2 drink minimum.

HEE HEE!

HMMMM...

Great point from Current TV's Cenk Ugyur: Why are the Occupy Wall Street protestors who rep 99% of us getting beaten by cops when anarchist tea party protestors with guns and racist slogans left to assemble in peace?

HAHAHAHA!

HAHAHAHA!

OBAMA THE SKUNK IS AT IT AGAIN!

OBAMA IS TRAGIC! He happily gives tax cuts to the rich and plenty of money to defense so we can fight unnecessary and unpopular wars, YET HE'S STILL TRYING TO CUT SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE--IN A RECESSION WHEN WE NEED THESE SERVICES THE MOST! Please sign this if you agree! Remind the fool that he's a democrat. Just take a look at this chart on what we spend on.

ROOTSACTION:

"The Washington Post revealed this weekend that the White House has a current offer "still on the table" to make billions of dollars of cuts in Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Democratic Leaders in Congress, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, grudgingly agreed to the deal, according to the Post.

Tell Obama, Reid, and Pelosi: hands off Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

Obama should veto any budget that does not increase taxes on the wealthy. But missing from the entire budget discussion is the existence of absurdly bloated military spending.

Military spending takes over half of discretionary spending and is protected by the silence of both parties and the media. Military spending hurts the economy, rather than boosting it. Military spending makes us less safe, destroys the environment, erodes civil liberties, concentrates presidential power, blocks progressive initiatives, and kills large numbers of people.

And polls show the majority of Americans want military spending cut.

Tell Obama, Reid, and Pelosi to cut the military instead of human needs."

I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS PILOT NEVER AIRED!

FASCINATING!

DRAG LIP-SYNCH CLASSIC BY THE THREE DEGREES!

HANGOVER CURES!

BLACK IRISH?

SEEN OUT AND ABOUT

TONIGHT AT ROCKIT!

NEXT FRIDAY!--CANDIS CAYNE PERFORMS!

THIS SATURDAY! ALAN CUMMING'S VERY FUN 1-MAN SHOW, WHICH I CAUGHT IN ATLANTA. 1 NIGHT ONLY!

DOUBLE REAR-ENDER WEEKENDER BENDER!

This Man Rear-Ended Another Car With A Sex Toy In His Ass



A 41-year-old man was arrested last Friday in Florida for rear-ending another vehicle. He had a blood-alcohol content over five times the legal limit. While a shame, both are exceedingly normal occurrences. What is not exceedingly normal was that, according to police, he also had a "sexual anus plug in his rectum."

MORE: JALOPNIK

INSANE SPACE FUNK!

ROTTEN!

The message still hasn't sunk in. Congress is proposing yet another law to monitor your activities on the Internet -- Here's the ACLU's take on John McCain's new cybersecurity bill:

"This is a privacy nightmare that will eventually result in the military substantially monitoring the domestic, civilian Internet."

Will you fight back against McCain's legislation by emailing your lawmakers? Just click here.

There's a power struggle brewing over cybersecurity, with two Senate factions butting heads. One group is backing a bill that is - surprisingly - not horrendous in its privacy implications.

(You can take partial credit for this, as that bill was written with every desire to avoid awakening the powerful coalition that killed SOPA a few weeks ago.)

But McCain's side wants to enable the military to snoop on civilian Internet users:

As Reuters notes, the "types of information that could be shared are broad, and the data would go to 'cybersecurity centers' that specifically include the National Security Agency's Threat Operations Center and the U.S. Cyber Command Joint Operations Center."

We have a key opportunity to help steer this debate away from McCain's inanity and towards a more reasonable alternative.

Please click here to email your lawmakers and urge them to oppose McCain's bill: DEMANDPROGRESS

WHAT ON EARTH?

!!!!

CALLING ALL WHORES!

RuPaul's Drag Race Season 5 Casting Call! from World of Wonder on Vimeo.

HOT MESS AT XL 9PM TONIGHT!

NUTS!

HEE HEE!

HORRIBLE NEWS!

LET'S EXAMINE THE MENTAL HEALTH OF SOLDIERS LIKE THIS SERGEANT, WHO JUST WENT FROM HOME TO HOME MURDERING 16 AFGHANISTAN CIVILIANS INCLUDING 9 CHILDREN. THEN LET'S MOVE ON TO EXAMINE THE MENTAL HEALTH OF OUR LEADERS AND THE CITIZENS OF THE US WHO STUPIDLY CRY "SUPPORT THE TROOPS!" EVEN WHILE THEY BURNED QURANS LAST MONTH AND URINATED ON TALIBAN CORPSES BEFORE THAT. BLOOD IS ON THE HANDS OF THE US AND IT WILL NEVER STOP FLOWING UNTIL WE ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WAR IS WRONG, PARTICULARLY IN A CASE LIKE OUR LAST TWO WARS/OCCUPATIONS IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN. THE FIRST SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN STARTED AND THE SECOND IS A SHAMBLES WITH NO CLEAR MISSION WHICH WE CAN'T AFFORD. EVEN IF YOU COULD CARE LESS ABOUT THE MINDLESS SLAUGHTER THAT YOUR TAX DOLLARS PAY FOR, DOESN'T YOUR SELF-PRESERVATION INSTINCT KICK IN WHEN YOU LEARN THAT THE TALIBAN HAS ALREADY PLEDGED REVENGE FOR THIS? WE WENT INTO AFGHANISTAN TO DISMANTLE THE TALIBAN--NOW DEMENTED SERGEANTS LIKE THIS PROVIDE THEM WITH RALLYING CRIES TO CREATE GENERATIONS OF NEW TERRORISTS TO ATTACK US? AND WHERE'S THE LIBERAL MEDIA CHANNEL MSNBC ON THIS? BASHING MITT ROMNEY AS THEIR TOP STORY. BUT MITT ISN'T PERPETRATING THE MADNESS THAT'S AFGHANISTAN. OBAMA IS. WITH YOUR HELP.

Sixteen civilian men, women, and children were murdered in the latest atrocity that forms part of the larger atrocity that is the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan. Enough. End it.

Even a lifelong war hawk and interventionist like Newt Gingrich sees there's no victory in Afghanistan. He recently commented that the Afghan people "have spent several thousand years hating foreigners -- and what we have done by staying is become the new foreigners."

Tell President Obama to get the U.S. military out of Afghanistan now.

Although U.S. troops put him in power, Afghan President Karzai can no longer defend night raids, drones, helicopters shooting children, or U.S. troops waving Nazi flags, urinating on corpses, or burning Korans.

And there's a new Pentagon money scandal: The "Defense" Department is avoiding even the smallest of budget cuts by shifting more of our money into the wars in Afghanistan and, yes, Iraq. Enough is enough.

Tell President Obama to bring our war dollars home.

SIGN: ROOTSACTION

MY HERO!

Under the name Clarence Reid, Blowfly also wrote more PG hits like Clean Up Woman, a massive 70's soul hit for Betty Wright.

NOT GOLDA MEIR AND ITSY BITSY SPIDER!

Nadya GInsburg's latest "Madonna" interview is insanely funny!

PENNY ARCADE INTERVIEWS QUENTIN CRISP!

This is all kinds delightful!

An Evening with Quentin Crisp - excerpt from the theater of Penny Arcade from Steve Zehentner on Vimeo.

OBAMA: WORSE THAN BUSH?

Breaking news: While President Obama claims to want Israel not to attack Iran, he has reportedly sold them the weapons to facilitate such an attack, weapons Bush had refused to provide. According to the Israeli newspaper Maariv, Obama has reportedly sold weapons on condition that the attack be delayed until 2013, after the November U.S. election.

TELL PRESIDENT OBAMA. No attack on Iran -- not now or 2013. No backroom weapons deals -- a deal that even Bush refused to make.

More than12,000 have signed the letter to Congress and President Obama. Can you help us reach 20,000 signers? Please sign the letter if you haven't already or forward this email to your friends and family.

A full page ad in Monday's Washington Post quotes former top U.S. military officials opposing an attack on Iran.

But Israel’s conservative government wants an attack, ...and President Obama's speech at the AIPAC conference on Sunday was highly praised by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Tell President Obama: Not Another War!

MORE: ROOTSACTION

AMEN TO THIS!

WOW!

YUCCH!

Mystery meat of such poor quality that it was rejected by McDonalds and Burger King is being purchased for school children to eat. What evil trolls would want to possibly harm our defenseless children? WHY, THE VERY USDA THAT IS SUPPOSED TO PROTECT US FROM UNSAFE FOODS! Hey Mrs. Obama--is ammonia-treated mystery meat part of your healthier eating campaign? Could you please remind your husband that the health of our children is more important than the campaign contributions which he and/or Bush got/gets from the pink slime manufacturers? Last time I checked, he was in charge of the USDA so clearly this is ok with him. But not with anyone who learns of it. And we've learn by now that Obama favors the people over corporations only when we demand something. So c'mon, folks!! Speak up! This is disgusting! If this crap is OK, then let's see them serve it to the Obama kids!

SIGN PETITION TO KEEP THIS OUT OF OUR SCHOOLS! CREDOACTION

THE WE WERE (IN CLUBS)

IGNORANT AND PROUD OF IT!

I'M THE MARCH HARE!

FINAL TWO SHOWS of THAT AIN'T NO LADY! AT LA ESCUELITA ON TUESDAY 3/13 and 3/20. It's been 10 years since I've performed my last one woman show in NYC. I initially scheduled the show every Tuesday in October but it kept getting extended and now I'm officially the March hare. The old gal even got a rave review in the NY TIMES, which is a first for me. The show is 90 minutes of raunchy fun and Escuelita actually has been remodeled into a very cute cabaret venue. I've had a blast doing the show but have to head to LA for a month for a big project so all good things must come to an end. So I'm just letting you know that there are only two shows left and if you haven't made it yet--here's your chance! Hope you get to see it!

NY TIMES:

THEATER REVIEW | 'THAT AIN’T NO LADY!'
Under the Bouffant, a Sewer Mouth on Go-Go Wings
By DAVID ROONEY

A once proud and subversive warrior tribe that deified freakdom, drag queens have become awfully mainstream. Tame transvestites are now passing for Kardashians, while biological women all over television are communing with their inner drag divas on shows like “Mad Fashion,” “RuPaul’s Drag U” and “The Real Housewives of You Name It.”



But whatever happened to authentically scary, sewer-mouthed, gutter-glam fierceness? That endangered but not extinct form of alternative entertainment has a resplendently tacky old-school flag bearer in Lady Bunny, frugging with infectious abandon on a toxic cloud of Aqua Net in her first cabaret show in 10 years, “That Ain’t No Lady!”

Playing Tuesdays at La Escuelita Cabaret Theater, this 90-minute set of filthy stand-up and pornographic song parodies strives to awaken the ghosts of a pre-sanitized Times Square. After an opening mash-up of X-rated Katy Perry revisions, the Lady warns, “That concludes the PG portion of tonight’s entertainment.” She’s not kidding. Much of what follows makes “The Book of Mormon” seem like “Bambi.”

Founder of the defunct annual outdoor drag festival Wigstock, Lady Bunny has remained faithful to her signature look, which calls to mind Dusty Springfield rendered as a Thanksgiving parade float on fabulous gams. She and her gargantuan bouffant became New York club fixtures in the 1980s and have since gone on to wider notoriety, recently as Dean of Drag on “RuPaul’s Drag U.” But Bunny is best experienced in a filter-free environment with shirtless cocktail waiters.

She resurrects the “Laugh-In” quickie joke-a-thon format, punctuating her zingers with limber go-go moves, and dips into a seemingly inexhaustible repertory of pop desecrations old and new. She employs video assists to perform her debauched rap parody of Far East Movement’s “Like a G6” and Cher’s “You Haven’t Seen the Last of Me,” helpfully recapping the plot of “Burlesque” for the millions of us who missed it. While her Amy Winehouse tribute is perhaps not the most reverent, one gets the distinct impression that Ms. Winehouse would have been tickled.

Most of Lady Bunny’s best lines are unprintable here, but more than any performer I saw this year “the old pig in a wig,” as she calls herself, made me weep with laughter, often while groaning with disgust. And isn’t that what the best low comedy is all about?
“That Ain’t No Lady!” continues on Tuesdays in an open-ended run at La Escuelita Cabaret Theater, 301 West 39th Street, Manhattan

TICKETS: BROWNPAPERTICKETS

SLACKTIVISM AT IT'S FINEST

Suddenly everyone's outraged over Kony, a hitherto unknown Ugandan monster and his army of children and sex slaves. The video really touched a nerve with many and millions in donations have poured in to help stop Kony. How odd! We are so concerned about children in Uganda that we quickly mobilize to send millions, yet we continue to pay out the nose to bomb and kill innocents in Afghanistan. Here's an awful story about a religious girls' school which we bombed, injuring 11 girls. 9 Afghan kids herding sheep were killed by us in a similar US-led NATO strike recently. SUPPORT OUR TROOPS! Aren't they doing a great job bombing children? And please remember as US school, police, fire fighter and benefits are cut back home, that we are paying troops $1 million per soldier per year to kill children abroad. But they aren't from Uganda and they don't have an expensive video made about them like Kony did so we don't care about them. We pay to stop Kony from killing children yet we pay to kill Afghan children. Is something wrong with this picture? Can you even describe to me what our mission is in Afghanistan? I'll tell you one thing--bombing children's schools creates terrorists who will despise and attack us for generations. But hey, this story is from an Iranian news site. And they are so crazy over there that maybe we should just bomb them too. Oh wait! That's just what me may be planning.

MORE: PRESSTV

OBAMA CONTINUES TO KILL OUR FREEDOM OF SPEECH

Protest, thanks to an anti-Trespass Bill Obama just signed, is now illegal in certain situations. How odd--I seem to recall that protest and freedom of expression were principles upon which the US was founded. Thanks, Obama! For proving what a turd you are again. The republicans may be worse, but Obama is hardly a good guy. And I don't suppose he'd be so concerned about suppressing the truth if he didn't lie so much. An excerpt from this fascinating article: "And before you forget, the president can now detain you for getting too close to his front yard, order your assassination if the country considers you a threat and lock you away for life with no charge if you’re alleged to be a terrorist. You, on the other hand, can’t yell obscenities at Newt Gingrich without risking arrest."

Did you hear about this on your news outlet? Probably not, since they are owned by the same big businesses which own Obama and almost every other politician in the land.

MORE: RT.COM

I'M OLDER THAN YOU THOUGHT!

THE SAPPY SIDE OF ME!

This gorgeous song never fails to lift my spirits. It's by Dawn Robinson from En Vogue--kind of a forgotten album cut from her solo album. Very slow, but nice lyrics and something tells me that Dawn knows about ups and downs. Enjoy



And while I'm at it...

IM SO HARD TO SHOP FOR!

Silence! Japanese researchers build speech-jamming gun

Meet the SpeechJammer, a disturbing piece of gadgetry that can remotely stop a person from talking.

A pair of Japanese researchers have create a solution to a problem we didn’t even know existed: People talking too loudly, for too long, or out of turn. Their answer — a “gun” that silences the person speaking.




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HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY!

MUST SEE

PINK SLIME FOR LUNCH--YUM!

HUFFPO: Government Buying 7 Million Pounds Of Ammonia-Treated Meat For Meals




Pink slime -- that ammonia-treated meat in a bright Pepto-bismol shade -- may have been rejected by fast food joints like McDonald's, Taco Bell and Burger King, but is being brought in by the tons for the nation's school lunch program.

Controversy surrounding "pink slime" stems from various safety concerns, particularly dangers associated with ammonium hydroxide, which can both be harmful to eat and has potential to turn into ammonium nitrate -- a common component in homemade bombs, according to MSNBC. It's also used in household cleaners and fertilizers.

In 2009, The New York Times reported that despite the added ammonia, tests of Lean Beef Trimmings of schools across the country revealed dozens of instances of E. coli and salmonella pathogens.


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BUN-BUN IN ON THE ROAD!

TOO RICH!

Georgia Republican Who Wanted Drug Testing For Welfare Recipients Gets DUI

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Don't Iraq Iran from Rootsaction.org:

A full page ad in yesterday's Washington Post quotes former top U.S. military officials opposing an attack on Iran.

But Israel’s conservative government wants an attack, ...and President Obama's speech at the AIPAC conference on Sunday was highly praised by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.



AIPAC is the powerful "Israel-right-or-wrong" lobby and it is backing Senate legislation (authored by Lindsay Graham and Joe Leiberman) that seeks to require an attack.

Meanwhile, President Obama wants to increase to $3.1 billion the weapons that you and I buy for Israel next year, while continuing to protect Israel from accountability at the United Nations or elsewhere.

Tell Congress and the President to avoid another war, and to do so right now.

A military attack on Iran would be disatrous for Iranians, Israelis, the region and the world -- perhaps even worse than the Iraq invasion.

This time, unlike a decade ago, let's heed informed voices of restraint (like the signers of the Post ad) and not the frenzied voices of war.

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LOVE SHARON REDD!

(Who got her start as one of Bette Midler's Harlette's!)

CORNY BUT CUTE!

ARCHIE ATTENDS A GAY WEDDING!

Comic book fans will appreciate this new twist. And it's even a multi-racial gay wedding!

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SHE LOST HER VIRGINITY TWICE!

WOMAN WITH 2 VAGINAS OFFERED $1 MILLION FOR PORN ROLE!

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TEENS GETTING DRUNK ON...TAMPONS?

Now this is just weird. PERIOD! One of its suggested benefits is that you don't get that bothersome booze breath. Just a bloody mary crotch. And guys are using it, too? Brown Russian, anyone?

PHOENIX (CBS5) -
It's no secret teenagers sometimes experiment with alcohol, even drugs, but new ways they're finding to get drunk had jaws dropping in our newsroom.

"Quicker high, they think it's going to last longer, it's more intense," said Dr. Dan Quan from Maricopa Medical Center.

"This is not isolated to any school, any city, any financial area," Officer Chris Thomas, a school resource officer, said. "This is everywhere."

When we heard how kids are getting drunk these days, we thought no way.

So we hit up the experts to find out if it's an urban legend or if it's legit.

"There's been documented cases of people going to the hospital with alcohol poisoning just from utilizing it that way," Thomas said.

Thomas spends his days patrolling the halls of a Valley high school. He's heard first hand how kids are getting tipsy.

"What we're hearing about is teenagers utilizing tampons, soak them in vodka first before using them," Thomas said.

"It gets absorbed directly into the bloodstream. There's no barrier, there's no stomach acid to prevent it," Thomas said.

"I would expect it to absorb pretty quickly as well, because it's a very vascular structure," Quan told CBS 5.

"This is definitely not just girls," Thomas said. "Guys will also use it and they'll insert it into their rectums."

And that's not all.

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I MIGHT WATCH MORE REALITY TV IF THE STARS LOOK LIKE THIS!

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VERY SAD NEWS FOR ATL DRAG LEGEND LILY WHITE

I'm only one of thousands who have been touched by Lily's unique talent. Formerly billed as "The Witch Queen Of Punk Rock, Lily alway did her own thing and added a raunchy element to the rest of Atlanta's polished drag performers. Well, the poor gal got home to find her house burned down thanks to neighbors who'd been burning leaves. While she had insurance on the house itself, all of her costumes and photos (which read like a history book of Atlanta club culture, are lost forever. Sadly, she doesn't even have one dress to perform in now! A benefit is planned with Charlie Brownn at the Jungle on 3/22 and there's an online donations page here: long-time cohort

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